Like many of you I am a frequent visitor to the beach.
I fell in love with Texas beaches in 1955. I was 6 years old when I built my first sand castle on Stewart Beach. I built my last one with Tori, my 6 year-old granddaughter, just a few weeks ago. Public beach access is very important to me. I want Tori to be able to enjoy our coast as much as I have. Every visitor to the coast should have that same opportunity.
“And I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen.” — Richard Mourdock, GOP candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Life is sacred.
It’s hard to believe that anyone in this day and age would say something like “let’s lynch the scientists.”
Unfortunately, the sentiments once reserved for medieval peasants’ feelings towards the local “wizard” when he told a bad fortune are resurfacing in the modern world.
Let us imagine, for a moment, a hypothetical situation.
Many labs at Baylor began as courses of serious study, giving students hands-on experience to complement their class work. Now, however, many labs need serious restructuring.
Why? Well, from our research, many students say that lab degradation can be blamed on a combination of things.
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are stepping up their rhetoric as Election Day grows nearer, and so are their supporters.
As a close follower of current events and politics, I have seen and heard many different viewpoints of President Obama and Governor Romney.
I am writing in response James Herd’s Oct. 24 article, “PETA Video Games Detract From Others’ Fight for Animal Rights.”
The game’s main message is that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment or abuse in any other way.
There are a lot of similarities between how Pokémon are used in the game series and how animals are abused in real life. The difference between real life and this fictional world full of organized animal fighting is that Pokémon games paint a rosy picture of things that are actually cruel.
Both Republican challenger Mitt Romney and incumbent president Barack Obama agree the deficit needs to be addressed, but it is Romney and not Obama who has repeatedly failed to prove himself as someone who is serious about tackling the issue.
Some facets of Romney’s tax reformation plan include cutting taxes by 20 percent across the board, considerably reducing marginal tax rates, repealing the inheritance tax, and reaffirming the low tax rates on capital gains.
According to the Tax Policy Center, Romney’s plan would cost $4.8 trillion over ten years.
There are plenty of places in the world where people are oppressed and don’t get any say in their own government. To a much lesser extent, one of these places is the United States of America. In America each person gets one vote for each political position in their district. That means that the people they vote for should reflect the will of the majority, but that vote gets watered down by a system of electors, representatives and gerrymandering and eventually dumped in a big tub with all the other votes. This means that each individual vote means a lot less than the aggregate.
